An international team of paleontologists, geoscientists and biologists has found via analysis of melanosome patterns in fossilized Mesozoic mammals, that they most likely had dark, uniformly dull fur ...

Melanosome shape varies in the different samples, and is indicative of color. The sample furthest to the left was predicted as iridescent view more Credit: Photographs of Scaniacypselus and ...

Scientists have long been trying to reconstruct the appearance of dinosaurs. The tidbits they are able to piece together from ...